July 08, 2018

The Cartographic Ideal’s Preconception of Pictorialness

July 08, 2018/ Matthew Edney

An 1820s schoolchild’s conflation of geography and mimesis

June 28, 2018

A Flat Earth?

June 28, 2018/ Matthew Edney

A review of the phenomenon of FErs — Flat Earthers — and of some of their ideas.

June 03, 2018

A Game of Snakes and Ladders

June 03, 2018/ Matthew Edney

The Elusive History of Map Scale. The script of my paper from ICHC 2017.

May 24, 2018

Squaring the Cartographic Circle

May 24, 2018/ Matthew Edney

I read this stuff so you don’t have to!

May 05, 2018

Maps, Semiotics, and History

May 05, 2018/ Matthew Edney

How not to do them. A response to Casti (2018)

March 29, 2018

A mezzotint star map

March 29, 2018/ Matthew Edney

Christof Friedrich Goldbach’s white-on-black star charts

March 15, 2018

Every Map Is Interesting!

March 15, 2018/ Matthew Edney

Boring maps ... and maps of boring places ... are to be savored!

March 14, 2018

First Steps towards a Partial Genealogy of the Compass Rose

March 14, 2018/ Matthew Edney

...or at least towards being precise about this nebulous feature

March 10, 2018

A Salutary Reminder...

March 10, 2018/ Matthew Edney

... that the people to whom I react were themselves reacting to the know-nothingness of their predecessors.

Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process is a space for me to explore a new approach to understanding mapping and its history. The exploration will eventually contribute to a book of the same name.

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The books …

Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations in Brill Research Perspectives on Map History. Available from Brill in print and as an ebook ($87).

Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography, edited by myself and Mary Pedley. Available from the University of Chicago Press, in print and ebook ($500).

Available from the University of Chicago Press in paperback ($30), e-book ($10–30), or cloth ($90).

Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.

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